Customized integrated date organization and personalized dating calendar system and method

Abstract

A system, method, apparatus, and computer program product that provides customized, integrated date organization and personalized dating calendar. The present invention, My Little Black Book™, includes a mobile app and server hosted platform that allows dating apps and website users to manage and organize their complicated digital dating life with easy-to-use features including, but not limited to schedule management, knowledge of dating partners, ratings, and historical summary, all in an user friendly, interactive and organized way. The system is configured for integration with and extraction of a user's dating information from multiple dating platforms for consolidation in a single app. Other aspects may include integrations with ticketing platforms for events, restaurant reservations, and other services contributing to facilitating date scheduling.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method comprising:
 extracting, at an online system, a user's dating data from one or more online dating services utilized by the user, the user's dating data including a contact information for at least one of a dating partner and a potential dating partner;   generating, at the online system, a unified repository of the user's dating data;   receiving, at the online system, from a user of the online system, a user activation of a new date control;   receiving, at the online system, a calendar date selection for a new date from the user;   receiving, at the online system, a dating partner selection for the new date from the user, the dating partner selection corresponding with the contact information from the unified repository;   receiving, at the online system, from the user, an entry of one or more alphanumeric characters corresponding to a date location;   generating, at the online system, a list of matching locations corresponding with the entry of the one or more alphanumeric characters;   transmitting, from the online system, the list of matching locations to the user;   receiving, at the online system, from the user, a date location selection from the list of matching locations; and   generating a scheduled date event, on the online system.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 generating, at the online system the list of matching locations based on a geographic location of the user.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 determining, at the online system, whether the date location selection requires one or more of a reservation or a ticket purchase.   
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 3 , further comprising:
 when the date location requires the reservation, linking, by the online system, the user with an online reservation system.   
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 3 , further comprising:
 when the date location requires the ticket purchase, linking, by the online system the user with an online ticketing system.   
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving, at the online system, a user selection of a notification contact for the scheduled date event.   
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , further comprising;
 receiving, at the online system, a user check-in for the scheduled date event.   
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 7 , further comprising:
 transmitting, by the online system, a date summary of the scheduled date event to the notification contact.   
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8 , further comprising:
 receiving, at the online system, a user update for the scheduled date event.   
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9 , further comprising:
 transmitting, by the online system, the user update to the notification contact.   
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 determining, by the online system, a completion of the scheduled date event;   activating, by the online system, a rate your date control for the user to rate the scheduled date event as a completed date event;   receiving, by the online system, one or more attribute ratings for the completed date event from the user.   
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein at least one of the one or more attribute ratings correspond to an attribute rating of the dating partner. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 12 , wherein at least one of the one or more attribute ratings correspond to an attribute rating of the date location. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 11 , further comprising:
 ranking, by the online system, the completed date event against one or more other completed date events based on the one or more attribute ratings.   
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14 , further comprising:
 generating, by the online system, a leaderboard, reflecting a ranking of each of the one or more completed date events based on the one or more attribute ratings.